"More than 70 years later, the metallic carcass is still there. The whole setting for it is just bizarre in a post-apocalyptic way," said Abby Wines, spokesperson for Death Valley National Park. "It's kind of on its side on a slope. It's extremely steep. You're on the ridge that sticks out into Panamint Valley. When you're looking through and over the plane, there's this desolate, open space where there's nothing but the valley and mountains as far as the eye can see."
"The project was a joint effort between the Air Force and the CIA, part of a 'super-secret operation few people knew about in 1952,' according to an article titled 'The CIA's Death Valley Albatross,' which ran in Air Classics magazine in April 1979."
"If not for the crash, we would know very little, if anything at all, about the formation of the 580th, 581st and 582nd Air Resupply and Communications Wings, also known as ARC Wings."
"The CIA was just flying over the park. It wasn't like they were using the park. They just happened to crash," Kim Selinske noted about the incident.
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